KRONIA FESTIVAL: Celebrates the birthday of that ol' bugger, Kronos, Father of Time.
Tibet: Monks of Choni Lamasery perform "THE OLD DANCE" in costumes & masks dating back to Manchu dynasty, representing all the demons of Buddhist hell.

Bodmin, Wales: THE BODMIN RIDING.

National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia. Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia.

1244 -- Displaced by the Mongols, the Khwarismian Turks take Jerusalem; 300 people escape.

A socialist as a silk weaver, he broke with the guesdiste line (Marxist & electoral) in 1881, starting his own anarchiste "Parti d'action révolutionnaire". Bordat was an advocate of "direct action" & active in militant labor actions. October 14, 1882 he was arrested & a defendant in the monster "Trial of the 66" of 1883. Sent to prison for four years, he was released early, & continued his militant activities. Bordat organized the conferences of Sébastien Faure in Narbonne in 1897.

1856 -- Beginning date of the novel What Is to Be Done?, by Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-1889), a Russian Nihilist. For over 20 years he was confined in a fortress & put to penal servitude in Siberia. A strong influence on Russian progressives & revolutionaries, inspiring a whole youth generation, including the anarchists.

1899 -- E. B. White lives, Mount Vernon, New York. Essayist & children's novelist. Wrote Charlotte's Web. Best known for his crisp, graceful, & highly individual style. Joined the newly established "New Yorker" in 1926. First gained fame with the publication of Is Sex Necessary?, which he wrote with James Thurber. Also co-authored The Elements of Style, with William Strunk, Jr. "Vigorous writing is concise," he says.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Alexander Berkman, a key organizer of the event, speaks at the rally despite heavy police surveillance.

Emma Goldman is furious when she receives the July issue of the Mother Earth, which, unbeknownst to her, is filled with "harangues...of a most violent character.... [including] prattle about force & dynamite."

1917 -- US: Beginning of "deportation" of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) miners from Bisbee, Arizona by vigilantes into the Sonoran desert.

Anti-labor vigilantes forcibly gather & ship over 1,200 striking members of the IWW in cattle cars from Jerome & Bisbee, Arizona, to California & New Mexico, where they are guarded by federal military authorities.

Wobbly James Brew is killed in the deportation today.

A precursor to this massive deportation occurred just two days ago in Jerome, Arizona, when 75 men were herded into cattle cars. The vigilantes & their supporters justified the deportation as a legitimate act of a community protecting itself from traitors, spies & anarchists who were determined to undermine the war effort.

Radowitzky was serving a life sentence for assassinating the chief of Buenos Aires police, who had ordered the massacre of workers during a May Day demonstration in 1909. Captured a month later in Chile, & after 21 years in exile, he went to fight in the Spanish Revolution. From 1940 until his death today he lived in Mexico.

Gershwin

Daily Bleed Patron Saint 2004-2005

Rhapsodist in Blue.

1938 -- Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, lives, Sugar City, Idaho. In 1991 won both the Bancroft Prize & the Pulitzer Prize for history for A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812.

Ballard, a housewife & mother of nine, recounted being paid for her midwife services in tea kettles, lumber credits, cheese, butter & turkeys. Ballard's career compared favorably with a 19th century doctor & a
20th-century hospital — Ballard did better, in terms of stillbirths & maternal deaths, than either. Among Ulrich's findings was that two
centuries ago, 38% of the 814 births the midwife attended resulted from extramarital liaisons.

1944 -- Patricia Polacco lives, Michigan. Her book, The Keeping Quilt, tells the history of her family — Russian Jews who emigrate to the US & settle on a farm in Michigan — through the traditions surrounding the use of a quilt made by her great-great-grandmother. Her growing-up years are chronicled in numerous picture books including: My Rotten Brother, Ralph, Thundercake, & Mrs. Katz & Tush.

1947 -- US: Two Feet & You're Out?: Eight black prisoners killed in Brunswick, Georgia for refusing to work in a snake infested swamp without boots.

1955 -- Edith Sitwell, in a letter to a friend, remembers Virginia Woolf: "I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.'"

1955 -- US: Congress authorizes all American currency to state,

"In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash."

1958 -- US: 3 Shits & You're Out? Judge Raulston Schoolfield convicted by the Tennessee Senate of articles of impeachment, which included accepting an automobile from law violators & using obscene language while performing his duties.

1958 -- US: Daisy Bates & the Little Rock Nine, African-American youths who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., receive the Spingarn Medal for their "heroism & pioneering roles in upholding the basic ideals of American democracy in the face of continuing harassment & constant threats of bodily injury."

1959 -- Songster/pacifist Joan Baez records a duet with Bob Gibson at the Newport Folk Festival; it is her first recording.

This is the first Newport Folk Festival, the brainchild of producer George Wein (Wein also organized the Newport Jazz Festival), July 11-12. The Kingston Trio, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Brownie McGee & Sonny Terry were but a few of the main attractions.

Joan Baez appears with Bob Gibson during his set & her unscheduled appearance is the talk of the Festival, establishing her as a talented & exciting new folksinger.

Baez met Gibson at The Gate Of Horn nightclub in Chicago during a two-week stint there, & he was impressed enough to invite her to join him at Newport.

1967 -- US: A week of riots/revolt begins in Newark, New Jersey, eventually leaving 26 dead, 1,500 wounded & over 1,000 arrested amidst widespread charges of police brutality. Part of "the long hot summer" stemming from dissatisfaction with lack of improvement in societal conditions.

1969 -- US: Federal appeals court reverses the 1968 convictions of Dr. Benjamin Spock & Ferber who had been found guilty of conspiring to counsel evasion of the military draft in 1968 during the Vietnam War. Coffin & Goodman cases are sent back for retrial.

1974 --

1974

The war that won't die

Sixty years after it ended, film-makers are still fighting the Spanish Revolution & Civil War.

When a fire bomb ripped through the Balmes cinema in Barcelona on July 11, 1974...

When a fire bomb ripped through the Balmes cinema in Barcelona on July 11, 1974, the screening of Carlos Saura's "La Prima Angelica" (Cousin Angelica) was brought abruptly to a halt. The violent response to Angelica, one of the first films to represent the country's bitter civil war from a republican perspective, emphasized the political importance of cinema that deals with contested historical periods. The civil war may have ended officially in 1939, but fascist fire bombs suggested that the battle for Spain's fractured past was set to continue.

The release of Jose Luis Cuerda's "La Lengua de las Mariposas" (Butterfly's Tongue) once again brings the Spanish civil war into the cinema. Set in Galicia in the months preceding Franco's fascist uprising in July 1936, it traces the relationship between a seven-year-old boy & his anarchist-leaning teacher.

The film is indicative of Spanish cinema's concern with the country's recent past; of the nearly 300 historical films produced in Spain since the 1970s, more than half are set during the second republic, the civil war & under Franco.

1978 -- Italy: A group of homeless people blows up the office of the Communist Party housing assessor, Rome. Source: [Calendar Riots]

1979 -- Dave? Dave's Not Here, Dave's Out Back?: US space station Skylab enters the atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates. Large portions fall intact in the remote outback.

1980 -- Jaime Suarez Quemain, El Salvadoran poet, assassinated by the army. A true anarquista who called himself a "libertarian", Suárez Quemain belonged to a generation of writers who emerged during the 1970s, the generation struck by the ominous power of the war.

the streets of san salvador will never disremember
they know how to count their dead

the streets of san salvador will never disremember
one day they shall speak out as serene justice

1985 -- Zippers for stitches announced by Dr. H. Harlan Stone. The surgeon had used zippers on 28 patients, on whom he thought he might have to re-operate, because of internal bleeding following initial operations. The zippers, which lasted between five & 14 days, were then replaced with permanent stitches. Now you can, literally, zip your lips.